Bridget Wade

More on flipping plankton: Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia? www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-these...

More forams and their phylogenic relationships: Lamyman, G. S., Fordham, B. G., Pearson, P. N., Wade, B. S., Woodhouse, A., Young, J. R., & Aze, T., 2026. Phylogeny of the Cenozoic planktonic foraminifera. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 24(2). doi.org/10.1080/1477... #foraminifera #foram

New paper out: Sphaeroidinellopsis and Sphaeroidinella (planktonic foraminifera): morphological variability, wall texture and taxonomic implications. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 24 (2) doi.org/10.1080/1477... #foraminifera #foram #microscopy #iodp

Full-time or part-time Research Technician in Micropalaeontology available in my lab @bridgetwade.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social as part of the NERC TONIC Large Grant. Closing date: 18th June 2026. More details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #technician #micropalaeontology #plankton #NERC

Why would a species of ocean plankton coil its shells to the right for millions of years and then suddenly, flip to the left? To find out more see Flipping Plankton in PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... by Bridget Wade , Paul Pearson, David King and Valeria Luciani

Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough. Come visit the Foram Lab @es-ucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk again any time

Beautiful late Eocene nannoplankton in this study we just published in Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia “Refined Stratigraphical and Biochronological Framework of Paleogene Successions in the Northwest Arabian Plate” doi: doi.org/10.54103/203...

Out in Nature Communications doi.org/10.1038/s414... by Lu et al. 2026. Find out about Complex marine ecological response during the Eocene-Oligocene revealed by global foraminiferal record

Graph-Optimized Graphic Correlation: an automated framework for combining stratigraphical data by Lu et al out now in Lethaia www.scup.com/doi/epdf/10....

New paper out: Evaluating the reliability of grain‐size sorting for organic biomarker analysis. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 41, e2025PA005289. doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Planktonic foraminifera in biostratigraphy and biochronology, now out in Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 59: 117-174. doi: 10.1127/nos/2024/0840.

New paper out: Petrizzo, M.R., Wade, B.S. and Gradstein, F.M., 2025. Planktonic Foraminifera. In: Gradstein, F.M., Zalasiewicz, J., Williams, M. and Waśkowska, A. (Eds.). Fossils and Earth Time, 119-135. doi.org/10.1016/B978...

Check out these super cool micro-CT scans of Pulleniatina: Fabbrini et al. 2025. Morphology of Pulleniatina (planktonic foraminifera) from optical microscopy, micro-CT and SEM investigations. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 44: 213-235. doi.org/10.5194/jm-4...

Out now: Low-latitude biostratigraphy and diversity of planktonic foraminifera from the middle Eocene to early Oligocene by Adam Woodhouse, Bridget Wade, Tom Dunkley Jones, Carina Hoorn, and Kirsty Edgar. J. Micropalaeontology, 44, 601–632, 2025 doi.org/10.5194/jm-4...

Interested in corals, dispersal, and diversification dynamics? 🪸 We're offering a PhD project on how the Tethys closure shaped global marine biodiversity — supervised by me, Bridget Wade, Nadia Santodomingo, & Francesca Bosellini. 🗓️ Apply by 17th December 2025 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how...

Everything you want to know about Pulleniatina can be found in the paper out last week: Systematic taxonomy of Pulleniatina. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 55: 245-275. DOI:10.61551/gsjfr.55.3.245 by Paul Pearson, Alessio Fabbrini and Bridget Wade @es-ucl.bsky.social‬ #IODP #UCL #NERC

Out now: Community guidelines to increase the reusability of marine microfossil assemblage data. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 44: 145–168. doi.org/10.5194/jm-4....

2-year NERC postdoc position on Oligocene planktonic foraminifera available in my lab @bridgetwade.bsky.social working as part of the TONIC Large Grant www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-scienc.... Closing date: 16 June 2025. More details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #geologyjob #micropalaeontology #forams

Onset of strong Iceland-Scotland overflow water 3.6 million years ago. Nature Communications: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

#ICP15 #perspective #speakers are Raja Ganeshram @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social , B N Goswami, Sidney Hemming @lamontearth.bsky.social @bridgetwade.bsky.social Thomas Westerhold @marumunibremen.bsky.social All our #pleanry #speakers are now announced 👇🏼😊 www.icp15.com/themes

How do these forams get such crazy shapes? See the open access paper out now by Brombacher et al. (2024). Heterochrony in the evolution of the planktonic foraminifer Globigerinoidesella fistulosa from the Trilobatus sacculifer plexus. Paleobiology, 50: 582–591. doi.org/10.1017/pab....

New paper out in Biogeosciences: Exploring macroevolutionary links in multi-species planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca and δ18O from 15 Ma to recent. Read all about it here doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...

Hello Manchester :) I'll be giving the Darwin Day Lecture this Thursday at the Friends Meeting House, 7:30pm. All welcome :) Come and hear the biggest story on Earth - that of our ocean, and why it matters far more than we generally think. Spread the word! gmh.humanist.org.uk/event/darwin...

Full-time or part-time Research Technician in Micropalaeontology available in my lab @bridgetwade.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social as part of the NERC TONIC Large Grant. Closing date: 23rd February 2025. More details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #technician #micropalaeontology #plankton #NERC

We are seeking a Lecturer (Teaching) to act as Deputy Undergraduate Tutor and to assist with delivering our taught programmes (particularly in areas of environmental geoscience and environmental geochemistry). www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Deadline: 14.02.2025

In friday’s palaeo seminar @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social we were treated to Microfossil evolution and morphological change through warm and cold climates by the amazing @bridgetwade.bsky.social

The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period. More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements have been condensed into a single vital number. theconversation.com/my-new-dark-...

The North Pacific subtropical gyre was not the same in the past. Modelling studies suggest it expanded further north in the warm early Eocene. Get free access to Zhang et al. for the next 50 days (until February 27, 2025) authors.elsevier.com/c/1kPH073N~E... #DeepMIP

Postdoc position on Silicious Microfossils available in my lab @bridgetwade.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social as part of the NERC TONIC Large Grant. Closing date: 10th January 2025. More details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #postdoc #micropalaeontology #plankton #radiolaria #diatoms

Timing is Everything. Read all about it in: Westerhold, T., Agnini, C., Anagnostou, E., Hilgen, F., Hönisch, B., Meckler, A. N., Pälike, H., Wade, B., Sosdian, S. and Kasbohm, J. 2024. Timing is everything. Paleoceanography and Palaeoclimatology, 39, e2024PA004932. doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Postdoc position on Silicious Microfossils available in my lab @bridgetwade.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social as part of the NERC TONIC Large Grant. Closing date: 10th January 2025. More details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #postdoc #micropalaeontology #plankton #radiolaria #diatoms

Fully funded PhD project “Changing life and changing ocean in the Oligocene icehouse” available through TREES Doctoral Research Programme. Project details here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/cha... Deadline 20th January 2025. #NERC #PhD #TREESDLA

🚨 TREES Projects Are Live! 🚨 🌍 Over 120 PhD projects now available on the TREES website! Explore Route 1 projects or develop your own Route 2 proposal. 🗓️ Applications are open—deadline: 20th Jan 2025. 🔗 www.trees-dla.ac.uk #PhD #EnvironmentalScience #TREESDLA

Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago, but did not lead to any lasting changes in the Earth’s climate, according to a new study by Prof @bridgetwade.bsky.social and Geoscience MSc graduate Natalie Cheng @es-ucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/de...

🌱Announcing TREES! 🌍The Training, Research & Equity in Environmental Sciences Doctoral Award led by UCL will train future environmental scientists with a focus on sustainability, EDI, and interdisciplinary research. Learn more at www.trees-dla.ac.uk #TREES #EnvironmentalScience #Sustainability #EDI

🌊📉 New Paper Alert! "Migrating is Not Enough for Modern Planktonic Foraminifera in a Changing Ocean" published Open Access in Nature🧵👇 Me & @tdegaridel.bsky.social @juliemeilland.bsky.social @sulpis.bsky.social @chalkyoceans.bsky.social and others www.nature.com/articles/s41...